306 : THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS.

she would have drawn thee into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
destruction and perdition.* ’T was she that set Absalom against his father, and Jero-
boam against his master. ”T’ was she that persuaded Judas to sell his Lord, and that
prevailed with Demas to forsake the godly pilgrim’s life. None can tell of the mis-
chief that she doth. She makes variance betwixt rulers and subjects, betwixt parents
and children, betwixt neighbor and neighbor, betwixt a man and his wife, betwixt a
man and himself, betwixt the flesh and the heart. Wherefore, good Master Stand-
fast, be as your name is, and when you have done all, stand.

At this discourse there was among the pilgrims a mixture of joy and trembling;
but at length they brake out, and sang:

‘‘ What danger is the pilgrim in!
How many are his foes!

How many ways there are to sin
No living mortal knows.

“ Some of the ditch shy are, yet can
Lie tumbling in the mire ;
Some, though they shun the frying-pan,
Do leap into the fire.”

 

CHAPTER X.

THE PILGRIMS AT HOME,

&FTER this, I beheld until they were come unto the Land of Beulah, where the
sun shineth night and day. Here, because they were weary, they betook

 

themselves awhile to rest. And because this country was common for pilgrims,
and because the orchards and vineyards that were here belong to the King of
the Celestial Country, therefore they were licensed to make bold with any of His
things. But a little while soon refreshed them here; for the bells did so ring, and the
trumpets continually sound so melodiously, that they could not sleep ; and yet they
received as much refreshing as if they had slept their sleep never so soundly. Here
also the noise of them that walked in the streets was, “More pilgrims are come to